---
name: "Lee Strasberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lee-strasberg"
fi1m_id: "lee-strasberg"
imdb_id: "nm0833448"
tmdb_id: 3171
wikidata_id: "Q297945"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 November 1901"
died: "17 February 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:27:54.134749+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lee Strasberg

## Identity

Lee Strasberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lee-strasberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lee-strasberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0833448
- **TMDB ID:** 3171
- **Wikidata ID:** Q297945
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Strasberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297945, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833448/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3171

Actor. Born 17 November 1901 in Budzanów, Austria-Hungary. Died 17 February 1982.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 November 1901, Budzanów, Austria-Hungary
- **Died:** 17 February 1982
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Strasberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297945, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833448/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3171

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*The Godfather Part II*](https://film.one/film/the-godfather-part-ii.md) (92)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lee Strasberg (1901–1982) was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He co-founded the Group Theatre in 1931 with Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford. From 1951 he served as artistic director of the Actors Studio in New York, and in 1969 he founded the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Strasberg is credited with introducing and popularising method acting in the United States. He trained many actors including Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. His own screen appearances were few; he made his film debut as Hyman Roth in *The Godfather Part II* (1974), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other film roles include *Going in Style* (1979) and *...And Justice for All* (1979).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Godfather Part II* (1974), Fi1m 92, as Hyman Roth — [page](https://film.one/film/the-godfather-part-ii.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *100 Years of Marilyn Monroe* (2026), as (archive footage)
- *Fatal Addiction: Marilyn Monroe* (2022), Actor
- *The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959* (2016), as Hyman Roth
- *Marilyn despite herself* (2012), Actor
- *The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980* (1992), as Hyman Roth
- *Skokie* (1981), as Morton Weisman
- *Going in Style* (1979), as Willie
- *Boardwalk* (1979), as David Rosen
- *...And Justice for All* (1979), as Grandpa Sam
- *The Last Tenant* (1978), as Frank
- *Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television* (1977), series, as Hyman Roth
- *The Cassandra Crossing* (1976), as Herman Kaplan
- *The Godfather Part II* (1974), as Hyman Roth — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/the-godfather-part-ii.md)
- *The Legend of Marilyn Monroe* (1966), Actor
- *The Gun Runners* (1958), as Rhett
- *China Venture* (1953), as Patterson
- *Somewhere in the Night* (1946), Adaptation
- *Parnell* (1937), as Pat
- *Story with Two Endings*, Director

## Gallery

- ![The bench at Lee Strasberg's grave (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/59454/gallery-dfa66adeb718.jpg) The bench at Lee Strasberg's grave (2011) — Anthony22 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bench_at_Lee_Strasberg%27s_Grave_2007.JPG/1280px-Bench_at_Lee_Strasberg%27s_Grave_2007.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The bench at Lee Strasberg's grave (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/59454/gallery-88d03bd5f6be.jpg) The bench at Lee Strasberg's grave (2007) — Anthony22 at en.wikipedia; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:14, 9 January 2012 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Bench_at_Lee_Strasberg%27s_Grave_2007_crop.JPG/1280px-Bench_at_Lee_Strasberg%27s_Grave_2007_crop.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lee Strasberg](https://film.one/media/person/59454/gallery-f3bc1bd00c7e.jpg) Lee Strasberg — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Lee_Strasberg-1976.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Lee Strasberg](https://film.one/media/person/59454/gallery-7174d50035ef.jpg) Lee Strasberg — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1975: Best Supporting Actor (nominated), for *The Godfather Part II*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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